Trudeau Yachts General FAQ 

Q: How much do the Trudeau yachts cost?

A: There’s a wide variety of price points, from under $1000L to $4000L. The cost is based primarily on size (like in RL ;) and also complexity.

Q: Can I get custom sails or hull colors? Or will you apply my graphic to a sail, flag or hull?

A: Creating custom graphics is time and labor intensive. Due to time constraints, we’re afraid our customization work is limited only to applying your requested name and home port to the yacht.

Q: You do boat naming? Do I just IM someone the name?

A: No, please don’t - we tend to lose requests by IM. You can find a naming request notecard inworld in the Trudeau Yacht marina sales vendor. Please fill that out and drop on Jacqueline Trudeau’s profile along with the indicated payment. In most cases,  we’ll have the named boat made up within a day or two and drop it back on you.

Q: Can I apply my own name graphic to the boat?

A: If you have familiarity with Photoshop or some other graphics application, we don’t see why not. The yachts are modify permissioned and each has a dedicated prim on the stern for display of the name graphic. Locate that prim and try dropping your graphic on it (make sure you have your original boat backed up in inventory first though!) Here at Trudeau we set the name graphic within a transparent alpha channel so that the underlying hull graphic is not obscured. You might not be concerned with that and can set the name background color the same as your chosen hull color.

Q: I want to get a Trudeau yacht as a gift. Are they transferable?

A: No, they are not transferable - they are copy permissioned instead, as every SL vehicle needs to be. If you want to purchase for someone else, please use the “Buy as a Gift” option on our vendors. Or alternately, most of our yachts are available on shoponrez.com and you can specify the recipient when purchasing from there.

Q: Do you charge for upgrades?

A: Never! From time to time we release updated versions of existing boats. Due to the fact that most customer’s boats, with their boat name graphic applied, are unique from every other boat on the grid we do not do automatic replacements. If you’ve had your boat for a while and think there might be a newer version available, contact Jacqueline Trudeau and we’ll drop the latest one on you. We will, however, have to charge a naming fee if you want your updated boat named as well.

Q: Can you build a custom boat to my specifications?

A: We’re afraid not. Each of our yachts takes weeks to months to realize. If you were to pay us for the time to build a new boat, you’d be well on your way to having that same boat in real life ;)

Q: The HUD no longer appears on my screen. It used to, what happened?

A: It seems that if you “attach” the HUD rather than “wear” it, the HUD orients itself in reverse on your screen. It’s still there and responds with “Ready”, you just can’t see it as the back of the HUD is transparent. Once this happens, the HUD object remembers this orientation so even if you “wear” it in the future it will continue to display backwards. Annoying!

The best fix is pull a fresh copy of the HUD out of the original package the yacht came in. Rez it inworld and locate the “Trudeau HUD” object in it’s contents and drag it into your inventory. They will have the same names, so to avoid confusion it’s best to delete or rename the messed up HUD.

We recommend keeping the package your Trudeau yacht came in just in case you need to go back to the original parts for some reason. If you no longer have it, contact Jacqueline Trudeau inworld.

Trudeau Attachable Yacht FAQ

Q: Ride??? Attach??? What’s the deal with all these parts? Why can’t I just rez a boat, climb in and sail it?

A: Currently SL limits physics enabled objects, like vehicles, to a maximum of 31 linked prims. On top of that, each riding avatar counts as one linked prim so that pretty much limits the detail a modeler is able to put into their vehicle. However, prims that are worn by an avatar do not count against that limit. So we made the vehicle part (including the scripts, sails and avatar riding positions) of the boat well under 31 prims and the appearance part well over. Just think of that part of the boat like any other avatar attachment, such as shoes or prim hair. If you really just want a one piece vehicle, we make and sell those as well.

Q: Can I permission my partner/friend/group as skipper on the attachable yachts?

A: No, we’re afraid not. The Trudeau attachable yachts are like clothing or prim hair/shoes that you wear while sailing. In SL you must be the owner of a thing before you can wear it. However, the “rideable” Trudeau yachts do have a notecard allowing you to specify skippers who aren’t the boat owner.

Q: Why am I ending up with tons of copies of the (rez and sit) part of the boat in my inventory?

A: All parts of the boat are copy permissioned. When you rez them inworld, the original stays in your inventory. When done sailing, if you “take” the vehicle object, you are essentially making another copy of it in your inventory. Unless you are making changes to the boat with the set command, there is no need to save it back into your inventory - you can just delete the rez and sit portion from the world when you are finished your sailing session.

Q: I want to display the “boat” part of the boat next to my dock. How can I do that if I always have to attach it?

A: As long as you have the prim allowance available (depending on the boat, between 215 and 254) on your parcel, just drag the “Trudeau Yacht (wear)” object from your inventory into the world just like any other object. Once rezzed in the world this way, you can position and rotate it around to your liking. Please note that when you have it attached to your avatar, do NOT position or rotate it, as this will mess up the boat’s orientation to your sitting position (see next question).

Q: OK, I made the mistake of manually moving the boat attachment when it I was wearing it. It’s easy to do. Now whenever I attach it, it is crooked and not lined up. Now what?

A: Yes, agreed - it is easy to do. You can painstakingly re-align it or try this (it’s easier): rez the original packaging your boat came in. Locate the “Trudeau Yacht (wear)” object in it’s contents and drag it into your inventory. They will have the same names, so to avoid confusion, it’s best to delete or rename the messed up copy.

As all pieces of the yachts are modify permissioned, we recommend keeping the package your Trudeau yacht came in, just in case you need to go back to the original parts for some reason (see next question).

Q: As soon as I rez the “Rez and Sit” object inworld, it takes off on it’s own and skitters away. What do I do now?

A: Yes, that phenomenon has been reported and we have observed it, but have not been able to replicate to figure out what’s going on and fix it. In the meantime, what advice we can offer is delete (or rename) the “Rez and Sit” object from your inventory that is showing that behavior, and replace it with a fresh copy from the original package the yacht came in. 

 Q: The boat looks great rezzed inworld, but there are no poseballs - where do I sit on it?

A: There are various places on the boat with sit scripts and animations embedded in them. Try sitting on all of the cushions, above and belowdecks, the decks around cockpit, the pillows on the berths.

Q: I get stuck trying to get in  and out of the boat.

A: That’s a question? ;) Admittedly, the belowdecks accomodations are a tad cozy (but what sailboat, in any life, isn’t?). SL makes it even more difficult. In RL boats most cabin soles are below the waterline, but if we did that in SL, you’d be up to your ankles or knees in the wet stuff as prims don’t displace water ;) You may find it easiest to enter the boat by sitting on the belowdecks cushions and exit by sitting on something outside the boat, such as the cockpit cushion or deck.

Q: I gave the command to change the color of the boat when it was rezzed next to my dock but nothing happened. Why?

A: To reduce sim lag, the boat is scripted to listen to commands only while it is attached to you. Just attach it, issue the set color command, detach it, then rez it - it will now have your selected color.

Q: The HUD looks just odd on my screen - none of the text aligns with the background. Do I need a new HUD?

A: Depending on your screen resolution, you may have to adjust the size of the HUD background as graphics and text scale differently. Right click on the HUD background, then edit and stretch it until the background aligns with the text (very important: check stretch both sides and stretch textures, uncheck use grid before stretching the HUD).

Q: So I sat on the rez and sit part, I attached the wear part, I have the HUD on the screen, but nothing is happening - the boat isn’t responding to the HUD.

A: Make sure you sat on the “skipper” poseball (the red one). When you clicked on the HUD sync button after everything was in place you should have seen two messages in the chat history similar to that shown below:

HUD listening on channel 2335573100
HUD listening on channel 2335573100

Q: Data on the HUD doesn’t seem to be updating

A: Are you located in a parcel that has script execution disabled (look for the little document with a slash through it icon up on the SL client’s menu bar)? Or you may just be experiencing SL lag in action.

 Q: The boats are supposed to be modify permissioned but they say “No modify” in my inventory. Why is that?

A: The “No modify” comes from the boat object’s embedded scripts which are no modify. However the prims that make up the boat are completely modable - retexurable, colorable, etc. (are those words??? lol!)